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    Iran director: Film award comes amid 'frustration'

    TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — One of Iran's most prominent film directors said Monday he hoped the Golden Globes award to a fellow filmmaker will help lift the spirits of the country's artistic community after the state-ordered closure of an independent cinema group.

    Abbas Kiarostami lauded the "unique success" of writer-director Ashgar Farhadi for "A Separation," which won the best foreign-language film award Sunday at the Golden Globes ceremony in Beverly Hills, California.

    Kiarostami told The Associated Press it was a bittersweet moment after authorities ordered the closure Jan. 4 of the House of Cinema, an independent film group that operated for 20 years.

    Officials said it lacked the proper permits, but artists and others claimed it was a political decision, because the group often took liberal stands contrary to government's cultural policies.

    "A Separation" tells the story of a couple heading for divorce and dealing with domestic troubles with a young child and an aging parent. It examines gender, religious and class distinctions in contemporary Iran.

    Amir Esfandiari , an official in the Farabi Film Foundation affiliated with the country's culture ministry, offered congratulations to Farhadi and wished the film success as a possible Oscar candidate, the semiofficial Isna news agency reported.

    The Fars news agency said that the film will play for an extra week in a Tehran cinema. It had been shown in Iranian movie houses over the past months.

    Last week, Farhadi proposed that Iranian authorities allow a vote among artists about the fate of the House of Cinema.

    "I am hopeful that the award would partly help heal the frustration of people in the Iranian cinema industry," said Kiarostami, whose films have won prizes including the Palme d'Or at Cannes.

    He also hoped the Golden Globe award would persuade authorities to be "more kind" to Iran's film community.

     

    32 comments

    • Sophia  •  4 mths ago
      great Job.....wish the best for persian people
    • anonymous  •  Tehran, Iran  •  4 mths ago
      congratulation,you're the best.Thanks for making us happy...
    • Paul  •  Beverly, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      Probably much better than any of the crap out of Hollywood!
    • Persepolis  •  4 mths ago
      Great Film, and thank you for dedicating the golden globe to the people of Iran
    • Alex  •  4 mths ago
      Viva Mr. Farhadi!
    • B B  •  4 mths ago
      Amazing film. Bravo Iran.
    • Martin  •  4 mths ago
      The golden globes is run by booze fueled coke heads (freelance writers)...so why again is it important that they give out awards? that people feel the need to excuse this shows why we have in this world rampant lemmings, ignorance and general whatevs.
    • Alpha Male 1  •  4 mths ago
      All of this type of media coverage and accolades for the Iranian movie is Zionist and State Department preludes to attacking that peaceful nation. Iran is not the problem on this planet.
      I saw the movie and it is not impressive at all.
      The real source of political, religious, social and economic problems on this planet is, the "axis of evil"; America, England, France and Israel. Those nations are the only ones in recent history to pre-emptively attack other nations with impunity. The U.S. is fighting covert and overt warfare in 18 different nations at this time. The axis of evil is now setting the stage for yet another pre-emptive attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran. So anyone in that nation who appears to be an radical or swaying from the mainstream of societal gemmelschaftism given attention in western media. The Iranians receiving this attention had better be careful because me all see from recent history, that they and their family could be dodging bullets and bombs in the near future.
      • Martin 4 mths ago
        truth
      • N9BJJ 4 mths ago
        I resent the use of the word Zionist by people like you who bandy the word around without having a clue as to what it means. You simply take at face value the racist and arab connotation of what it means. I know what it means and I don't need you to tell me. Its a word used to describe the early pioneers of Israel that worked the land. It's not your word it's our word, and if I have anything to do with it - we'll be claiming that word back - because we're all entitled to our civil rights. Using the Z word is going to be like using the N word.
    • .  •  Irvine, California  •  4 mths ago
      long live irans people ---death to its regimes.
    • Iran-Immortals  •  4 mths ago
      Great movie. Iranians are a great nation, and hopefully will have better rulers in future.
    • Jon  •  4 mths ago
      A little too enlightened for the Iranian theocracy.
    • Shannon  •  Northridge, California  •  4 mths ago
      Love this :) Now hopefully this will be enough to show the Iranian government that film is important to their culture and can make waves outside Iran when it is created.
    • Sheida Barkhi  •  4 mths ago
      congratulation Mr.Farhadi we proud of you
    • Great  •  4 mths ago
      Iran, North Korea, and others...when will the leaders realize that totalitarian rule only hurts their country and people? It keeps them isolated from the rest of the modernized world as long as those regimes are hell-bent on oppressing people's freedoms!

      God Bless America, land of the free, home of the brave. USA! USA! USA!
      • No 4 mths ago
        America is a fascist nation nowadays. Nothing to be proud.
      • Sophia 4 mths ago
        America's policies r silly too....wikipedia can no longer be available due to the new SOPA policy of America to control websites! VERY FREE! I SEE
    • Carl Hasz  •  Willits, California  •  4 mths ago
      next time i hear someone tell me i should read a piece of #$%$ like war and peace, or consider the merits of marxism i think i might suicide bomb the persons face with my fist, that being said, i don't think there is a higher compliment for an artist than that there is an ethnic and cultural community that praises it as representative.
    • Rory  •  4 mths ago
      Former muslims are arrested and persecuted in Iran for placing their faith in Jesus Christ. It would be wonderful if an Iranian filmmaker would shine the spotlight on the absence of religious freedom in Iran.
    • rkymtnhigher  •  Denver, Colorado  •  4 mths ago
      He also hoped the Golden Globe award would persuade authorities to be "more kind" to Iran's film community.

      right!!

      Them muzzie dictators will end ALL of irans films,,
    • A Yahoo! User  •  Ashland, Massachusetts  •  4 mths ago
      "kind" isnt a term that the Iranian authorities are aware of.
    • ferdus  •  Baltimore, Maryland  •  4 mths ago
      Iranians will win against Fanatics,Always!!
    • LONGSHANK  •  Manila, Philippines  •  4 mths ago
      Riddle me this, it is estimated 1 million plus Iranian's live in the USA, why is there not more support for USA from Iranian's living here, why is there not more support from the 1 million plus Iranian's living in the USA's families in Iran.

      It hard to separate the good from the bad when good Muslims do nothing about bad Muslims, and good Iranian's do nothing about bad Iranian's.

      Riddle me that Chris... YFDASN
      • Sophia 4 mths ago
        can u do anything about Obama?!
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